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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:00:49AM -0400, Joseph Michaud wrote:
>> I have cygwin installed on a Windows share.  I'm trying to use it
>>from another Windows client machine (on which it was never installed)
>> by simply running the bash executable using the UNC path
>> (//share/cygwin/bin/bash.exe -l -i).  This isn't working.
>>...
>> The only other thing I can think of is that the registry is
>> being set up when you do an install and that these registry entries
>> are required when bash is invoked.
>>
>> Are registry entries referenced when running bash?
> 
> Cygwin, (somewhat) like linux, sets up a mount table which creates a
> root directory, bin directory and other directories.  You can see what's
> created by typing "mount".
> 
> The fact that this information is stored in the registry is irrelevant
> (and WILL change eventually).  You should use the mount command to
> see how things are set up.
> 
>> Is it possible to setup cygwin so that it may be used from a share
>> without having been installed on the client machine?
> 
> Possibly.  You don't absolutely need the mount table (with the possible
> exception of /tmp) but, if you want to have bash set things up
> automatically, you will need to investigate how bash works, set the
> appropriate environment variables, and use the appropriate command line
> switches.
> 
> info bash
> 
> may help.  Also check out "man mount" paying particular attention to
> "mount -m".
> 

Bingo!  That's the trick.  As soon as I ran the appropriate mount
commands on my client machines (specifying //share/cygwin...)
everything worked.

Thanks.

Joe

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